大树底下好乘凉 (大樹底下好乘涼)
dà shù dǐ xià hǎo chéng liáng
Pinyin
Definition
大树底下好乘凉 (大樹底下好乘涼)
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- lit. under a big tree the shade is plentiful (idiom)
- fig. to benefit by proximity to an influential person
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 (used after a verb) give it a go
- 2 to do (sth for a bit to give it a try)
- 3 one time
- 4 once
- 5 in a while
- 6 all of a sudden
- 7 all at once
- 1 down
- 2 downwards
- 3 below
- 4 lower
- 5 later
- 6 next (week etc)
- 7 second (of two parts)
- 8 to decline
- 9 to go down
- 10 to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc)
- 11 measure word to show the frequency of an action
- 1 to download
- 2 also pr. [xià zài]
- 1 big
- 2 huge
- 3 large
- 4 major
- 5 great
- 6 wide
- 7 deep
- 8 older (than)
- 9 oldest
- 10 eldest
- 11 greatly
- 12 very much
- 13 (dialect) father
- 14 father's elder or younger brother
- 1 everyone
- 2 influential family
- 3 great expert
Idioms (20)
三下两下
- 1 quickly and effortlessly (idiom)
上下其手
- 1 to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
- 2 fig. conspiring to defraud
上有天堂,下有苏杭
- 1 lit. there is heaven above, and there is 蘇杭|苏杭[Sū Háng] below (idiom)
- 2 fig. the beauty and affluence of Suzhou and Hangzhou is comparable with heaven
上有政策,下有对策
- 1 The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)
上有老下有小
- 1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
- 2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
- 3 sandwich generation